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About KEY CLUB
INTERNATIONAL
Key Club International is the oldest, largest, and most successful non-profit student-led organization for high school students. We teach and spread our core values through community service: caring, character-building, inclusiveness, and leadership. Members of Key Club, a part of the community-service-based Kiwanis International Family, develop themselves into young leaders as they positively impact their schools and communities.
Our organization was established at Sacramento High School on May 7, 1925, by California State Commissioner of Schools, Albert C. Olney and vocational school teacher, Frank C. Vincent. Today, Key Club exists on almost 5,000 high school campuses, in 33 different countries, primarily in the United States and Canada. It has also grown internationally to the Caribbean nations, Central and South America, and most recently to Asia and Australia.
Key club pledge
I pledge, on my honor,
to uphold the Objects of Key Club International;
to build my home, school and community;
to serve my nation and world;
and combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions.
CORE VALUES
LEADERSHIP
Humility and service to others. A true leader listens, recognizes, and empowers.
CHARACTER BUILDING
Everyday acts of kindness, integrity, and teamwork grows stronger relationships and communities.
A cornerstone of the Key Club experience, inspiring action and service to one’s community.
CARING
We welcome people of all backgrounds and ethnicities to join in serving and making a positive difference in our world.
INCLUSIVENESS
OBJECTS
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To give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life.
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To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
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To promote the adoption and application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship and social contacts.
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To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive and serviceable citizenship.
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To provide a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service and to build better communities.
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To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will.
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